"death is not supposed to be..."

Thursday afternoon Selah, Deborah's 5 year old daughter,

was sitting beside me on the porch swing

she looked at me,

eyes full of compassion, 

and in her sweet, quiet, gentle voice said;

"it's too bad Adam chose to do bad, 

death was not supposed to be"

we have talked a little this week about Grandpa Bill

about where he was buried

with a promise we would go up and see

and when Abigail , Deborah's 7 year old,

asked if we would see his old body when we went

I assured her we would not

and we had a discussion about funeral homes, coffins and headstones

Deborah had taken them to the cemetery earlier in the day

and when they saw all of the headstones

Selah was so very sad

"momma, there are so many... all of these people... it's so sad"

they picked flowers to put on Grandpa Bill's grave

as they were leaving they saw the headstone of a child

and a discussion about the size of coffins ensued

it really is too bad Adam and Eve chose disobedience...